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SETMODE version 1.0
by
Fremont Software [C] 1993
**** Warning and all that jazz
I have personally used this program for quite some time, I was just
incourged to release to for the joy and happy computering of you the user.
I will not take any responiblity for Data Loss or anything, however is
something like this should happen (strongly doubt it) I would like to know
about it as soon as possible, and exactly how you had it set up etc..
AND PLEASE!!!! don't use this is you use Stacker, Super Store or
anything like that!!!!! I don't use the compressions and have know way of
knowing if this thing would crash your system.. So unless you have alot
of guts... DON'T EVEN TRY IT!!!! But I would like to know if you did use
it and didn't have any problems.. and how you did it so I can add that
to the next release..
**** Why these programs?
Well one day while I was working on someone's computer and getting it set
up to run better I included with it a set of batch files in which I have
either made of copied the idea of the batch file off of a friend. I included
them onto his computer and told him how to use them and he suggested I made
a real program that did what these batch files did, well I have tried over
the past month I really haven't had to much time to really work on it, but
I have finially come up with a first release. I plan on programing a actual
program in C and releaseing it sometime this summer. However I have programed
the REBOOT.EXE program and thank those that put together the Programing for
DOS frequently asked questions, that gave the the information I needed to
make sure the memory was clear before rebooting the system.. Thanks guys..
**** How to use
Well basicly it is a simple file, which is very easy to use.. You will
notice that there are a bunch of .ZIP files, these are just examples of
what I have on my system. Please make a directory called MODES on drive
C: (C:\MODES). and copy all files into this directory. Now that you have
done that you need to edit the PKZIP.BAT and PKUNZIP.BAT files to work with
your system. (NOTE: I have my PKZIP.BAT file set up for PKZip 2.04g with the
-ex command for maximum compression, however these files really don't get
very big anyway so it probably really doesn't matter).
Now comes the fun part.. You can do one of a couple of things, copy the
.BAT files and the SETMODE.COM file to the DOS directory, or create a
.BAT file to use the SETMODE.COM in the MODES directory.. however all you
really have to have in the MODES directory is the .ZIP files. Also edit
the MODE.DAT file to say whatever you want and copy that to the C:\ directory.
Notice that I have mine in a ANSI format but it doesn't have to be.
The MODE.DAT file is just a file that gets changed along with the
AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files, you use the SHOW.BAT file to show you
what mode you are in. I would suggest you put the same mode name in here as
your .ZIP file name, notice that the MODE.DAT I have included says I am in
NORMAL mode and I have a NORMAL.ZIP file.
Now type SETMODE /n and press the enter key. you will notice that you
have an error and it should not reboot if you used the /n command. and
you will notice that your AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files and another one
called MODE.DAT got ziped into a file called OLD.ZIP, everytime you use the
SETMODE command the first thing it does is takes your old files and
puts them into a OLD.ZIP, this is so if you made changes to your
AUTOEXEC.BAT and/or CONFIG.SYS files you can now copy those changes to
whatever filename you want.. Now that this OLD.ZIP file has been made COPY
the OLD.ZIP to your FILENAME.ZIP. You have just created your first SETMODE
file. Now that you have done this you can freely go through your AUTOEXEC.BAT
and your CONFIG.SYS file, (don't forget the MODE.DAT) and change them to
whatever you need. then type SETMODE /n to make another OLD.ZIP file. and
copy that to another FILENAME.ZIP file.
Now all you need to know now is when you want to change a mode all you
do is type SETMODE NORMAL (DO NOT INCLUDE THE .ZIP extention) and the
program will make the OLD.ZIP and pkunzip the NORMAL.ZIP file over the old
AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS and MODE.DAT files, and then if you don't put a
/n before or after the mode file name it will reboot your system..
Example:
To reboot your system:
SETMODE NORMAL
to just change files:
SETMODE /n NORMAL
or
SETMODE NORMAL /n
that's all there is to it..
OH a couple more things..
if you do a SETMODE /? you will get a brief menu to show you what you
might have forgot..
/n is just used if you do not wish to reboot you system after changing
the files.. NOTE: this might be handy if you need to change a path is all
your ZIP files or something like that.
If you have any questions at all you can get ahold of me by the following
ways:
Call Monty's Place BBS
(801) 944-8636
1200-14400 bauds v.32
FIDONET Address
1:311/42
TSN (The Sierra Network)
Mailbox 17885